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 And secret Assasinations, not worship'd nor ador'd: but

With the finger on the lips & the back turn'd to the light.

And Saturn, Jove & Rhea of the Isles of the Sea remote.

These Twelve Gods, are the Twelve Spectre Sons of the Druid Albion

And these the names of the Twenty-seven Heavens & their Churches.

Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch,

Methuselah, Lamech: these are Giants, mighty, Hermaphroditic.

Noah, Shem, Arphaxad, Cainan the second, Salah, Heber,

Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, these are the Female-Males,

A Male within a Female hid as in an Ark & Curtains.

Abraham, Moses, Solomon, Paul, Constantine, Charlemaine,

Luther, these seven are the Male-Females, the Dragon Forms,

Religion hid in War, a Dragon red & hidden Harlot.

All these are seen in Milton's Shadow who is the Covering Cherub,

The Spectre of Albion, in which the Spectre of Luvah inhabits,

In the Newtonian Voids between the Substances of Creation.

For the Chaotic Voids outside of the Stars are measured by

The Stars, which are the boundaries of Kingdoms, Provinces

And Empires of Chaos invisible to the Vegetable Man.

The Kingdom of Og is in Orion: Sihon is in Ophiucus.

Og has Twenty-seven Districts: Sihon's Districts Twenty-one,

From Star to Star, Mountains & Valleys, terrible dimension

Stretched out, compose the Mundane Shell, a mighty Incrustation

Of Forty-eight deformed Human Wonders of the Almighty

With Caverns whose remotest bottoms meet again beyond

The Mundane Shell in Golgonooza, but the Fires of Los rage

In the remotest bottoms of the Caves, that none can pass

Into Eternity that way, but all descend to Los

To Bowlahoola & Allamanda & to Entuthon Benython.

The Heavens are the Cherub: the Twelve Gods are Satan:

P. 39 AND the Forty-eight Starry Regions are Cities of the Levites,

The Heads of the Great Polypus. Four-fold twelve enormity

In mighty & mysterious comingling, enemy with enemy,

Woven by Urizen into Sexes from his mantle of years.

And Milton collecting all his fibres into impregnable strength

Descended down a Paved work of all kinds of precious stones

Out from the eastern sky; descending down into my Cottage

Garden, clothed in black, severe & silent he descended. 40